NEW ORLEANS - Moments after one of the final practices before the start of his second season in the NFL, New Orleans Saints running back Khiry Robinson bounded into the locker room with plenty of reasons to smile.

The two-time defending Lone Star Football League champion Amarillo Venom have not lost a home game in nearly two years, but they have to beat the quarterback who led them to those two titles to extend their home winning streak past 12.

West Texas A&M women's basketball senior guard Casey Land said she still felt the afterglow of the South Central Region tournament championship the team won March 17 when the team returned to practice two days later.

The Amarillo Venom made Lone Star Football League history and team history Sunday as they scored the most points in the organization's three-year history in their first game against a team from outside the United States.

The Amarillo Venom will open their home schedule Sunday in a game that won't count in the Lone Star Football League standings against an arena football opponent that does not typically even play its games indoors.

Randall senior pole vaulter Morgan Moore said she did not feel the rush of nerves that typically accompany a record-breaking attempt Friday during the Amarillo Relays in large part because the mark she would soon try to break was already her own.

The District 5-4A-champion Amarillo High boys soccer team finished an undefeated district season with a 9-0 win Friday over Pampa in a game at Amarillo High that included a double hat trick from Trenton LaFleur.

Canyon senior sprinter Sommer Wilder will enter her final Amarillo Relays track and field meet with some of the fastest times in several sprint events, but it took miles and miles of running in the fall to help get her there.

The women's basketball teams that swapped the top two spots in the NCAA Division II South Central Region rankings through the final month of the season will meet to determine its champion.
No. 5-ranked and top-seeded West Texas A&M will play No.

A second-half comeback saved the No. 5 West Texas A&M women's basketball team from the end of its season in the semifinals of a tournament played on its own court. The top-seeded Lady Buffs overcame a 5-point halftime deficit to No. 5 seed St.

The No. 4-ranked and second-seeded Colorado Mesa women's basketball team put its second-ranked defense on full display Saturday in the South Central Region tournament semifinals.
The Mavericks beat No.

The No. 5 West Texas A&M women's basketball team returned to its home court Friday to open the South Central Region tournament, picked up where it had left off at the end of the regular season, and then shot even better.

The No. 5 and top-seeded West Texas A&M women's basketball team's opponent in the semifinals of the South Central Region tournament will be the only team to pull off an upset Friday at the First United Bank Center in Canyon. No. 5 seed St.

West Texas A&M women's basketball junior forward Chontiquah White had memories of the devastated feeling that fell on the team when it did not receive a bid to the South Central Region tournament a year ago.

ALLEN - The West Texas A&M women's basketball team had to walk off the court while a rival opponent cut down the nets at the end of the Lone Star Conference tournament a year ago. But this time the celebration was all theirs.

ALLEN - For the second time in as many seasons, the West Texas A&M men's basketball team's season has ended at the hands of a Tarleton State team that is likely headed to the NCAA Division II tournament, although this time the defeat came a round sooner.

ALLEN - The No. 5 West Texas A&M women's basketball team is still alive as the top seed in the Lone Star Conference tournament. But the final team to earn a tournament berth nearly ended the Lady Buffs' stay.
The Lady Buffs beat No.

As shouts of "Good job, Lauren!" came from the crowd Saturday around the shot put pit at Canyon High School, Pampa freshman Lauren Pingel sat in her specially designed chair with a smile worthy of an historical achievement.

The West Texas A&M men's and women's track and field teams finished a sweep of the two-day Lone Star Conference Indoor Championships on Sunday at the Athletic Training Center on the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock.

PORTALES, N.M. - The No. 6 West Texas A&M women's basketball team already knew when it would open the Lone Star Conference tournament, but Saturday it helped determine who it would play in the opening round.

The landscape and surroundings in Canyon were unlike anything West Texas A&M senior point guard Raven Gerald had ever experienced when she first moved across the country in 2012. But she quickly found a comfort zone on the basketball court.

The Texas Panhandle will be well-represented today at the Region I-1A Division I tournament that begins today at the Texan Dome in Levelland.
The first semifinal features Panhandle (21-6) against Smyer (26-5) at 6:30 p.m.